Contact lenses

I use contacts all the time for Bikram and my eyes are fine. The only problem I have is that my eyes become bloodshot but since I’ve never done Bikram Yoga without contacts, I can’t say whether the bloodshot eyes are caused by the contacts or the sweat dripping into my eyes.

I finally got tired of my glasses falling off and getting streaked with sweat and got contacts. They work fine for me although I do notice that some days, if the humidity is very low, they get to feeling a little dry by the end of class. I have some wetting drops and usually use them just before I go into the yoga room.

I ran into my boss once shortly after class and between the bloodshot eyes and yoga-brained responses was surprised that I wasn’t tapped for a “random” drug test at work the next day.

I stopped wearing mine except for when I go to yoga. You’ll have to take them out after class some time to rest your eyes and re-wet them, eyes and lenses, but in class it’s no big thing. Depending on how blind you are you’ll need them to see in the mirror. Wear them for awhile, then don’t one day and notice the difference.

I had Lasik done before I started Bikram, but after 20 years of full time contact lens use, I’m pretty familiar with the fear of sweat dripping in my eyes. But what I’ve discovered is that if I don’t have any sunscreen, makeup, hair products, etc. on and I’m just dripping clean sweat – shockingly, it feels the same as rewetting eyedrops. I think I was so used to only sweating when I was out in the sun wearing sunblock, that I didn’t ever realize that until now.